FA Youth Cup *** Official Thread ***

[perseus]

Aston Villa, who have been drawn away to the Albion in the third round of the FA Youth Cup.

The tie must be played by Saturday, December 17, but a date and venue have yet to be confirmed.


THE FA COUNTY YOUTH CUP
CLOSING DATES OF ROUNDS
SEASON 2011-2012
First Round Saturday 15 October 2011
Second Round Saturday 12 November 2011
Third Round Saturday 17 December 2011
Fourth Round Saturday 28 January 2012
Semi-Final Saturday 25 February 2012
Final Saturday 27 April 2012 (prov)

TheFA.com - FA County Youth Cup draws

 

[Horsham Gull]

That rules out them using the Amex on the Saturday then as the first team are at home that day (just re read needs to be played by 17th so nevermind)

 

[Albion Rob]

I think this is a different competition - this one seems to be for counties so presumably it's schoolkids rather than the FA Youth cup which is the youth teams of clubs.

I note Sussex beat London 5-1 in the first round though, which strikes me as a good result given the size of London - let's hope some of the Sussex kids are on the Albion's books.

 

[perseus]

I put the wrong link in. The correct one is:

TheFA.com - Fixtures

 

[Peter Grummit]

This is now confirmed for 13th December 730 at the AMEX.

PG

 

[perseus]

How did the youth team get on against Orient on Saturday?

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

How did the youth team get on against Orient on Saturday?

Brighton and Hove Albion | News | Latest News | Latest News | Youth Hit Seven Past Os

 

[Brovion]

One of the problems we'll have against Villa is that for the other youth competitions you are allowed to field two overage players but in the FA Youth Cup all the squad MUST be under eighteen. The current youth team goalie, Josh James, is one of the overage players and I'm not sure who'll take his place.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Lets hope we sell tickets at a price that will atract a good crowd to give the lads some experience in front of lot of people on a good pitch.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

I might be tempted to go to this actually Thanks for heads up

 

[BensGrandad]

Lets hope we sell tickets at a price that will atract a good crowd to give the lads some experience in front of lot of people on a good pitch.

STH £5 Non STH £7 and U16 free. Should get a reasonable crowd and take more money than charging £10 or £15 to get in.

 

[dstanman]

Can someone confirm the date of this game as the News section on seagulls web site is currently saying Thursday 13th December

 

[ees complicated no?]

counted around 550 so far lets hope a few more tickets get sold does anyone know the normal sort of attendance for this is?

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

counted around 550 so far lets hope a few more tickets get sold does anyone know the normal sort of attendance for this is?

I would imagine from our prevuious Withdean game against Everton 3-4.5 K although I think the big clubs could get 6-10K plus

 

[ees complicated no?]

emailed the club about parking situation for the game and they replied with the following

Hi Dean

In view of the likely low attendance figure, the plan is to allow free parking in Bennetts Field car park within the grounds of the stadium on this occasion.

There is no need to advance book, but you are welcome to just give us a quick call to check the day before if you wish, but at things stand at the moment there should be plenty of capacity.

Regards

Ian



Ian McDonald

Customer Services

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club

Telephone: 01273 878288

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

emailed the club about parking situation for the game and they replied with the following

Hi Dean

In view of the likely low attendance figure, the plan is to allow free parking in Bennetts Field car park within the grounds of the stadium on this occasion.

There is no need to advance book, but you are welcome to just give us a quick call to check the day before if you wish, but at things stand at the moment there should be plenty of capacity.

Regards

Ian



Ian McDonald

Customer Services

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club

Telephone: 01273 878288

Interesting that there is no mention of Bennetts Field or indeed any mention of cars/car parking whatsoever on the Official Website piece today re travel arrangements.

 

[ees complicated no?]

Interesting that there is no mention of Bennetts Field or indeed any mention of cars/car parking whatsoever on the Official Website piece today re travel arrangements.

guessing so that not everyone will turn up in a car which would then end up turning people away, Im going to give them a call once I finish work and ask them, if anyone else does it sooner post on here what they say please !!!

 

[ees complicated no?]

Just got a mate to ring them, there is parking at bennetts field, they will not be putting it on the website to avoid over crowding

 

[Mr Blobby]

Blocks W1C and W1G are nearly sold out, so I would guess a couple of thousand tickets sold.

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

W1D Row A Seat 92, right next to the home dugout